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Counterfeit Revival | 
 enlarge | Author: Hank Hanegraaff
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 320
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 1.1
ISBN: 0849942942
Dewey Decimal Number: 269
EAN: 9780849942945
ASIN: 0849942942
Publication Date: July 30, 2001
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Hank Hanegraaff documents the danger of looking for God in all the wrong places and goes behind the scenes into the wildly popular and bizarre world of contemporary revivalism. Hanegraaff masterfully exposes the stark contrast between these deeds of the flesh and a genuine work of the Spirit by contrasting modern "revivals" with the scriptural examples of God's movement among His people.
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 Well written & helpful October 12, 2008
R. Ahmadi (California, USA)
Hank has written a great book here addressing some challenging issues. He presents the material fairly, citing very many original sources throughout. This book helped me exercise discernment in pursuit of truth. I would recommend this book to anyone as it was definitely worth it for me!
 Interesting arguments against excessive emotionalism in church... September 16, 2008
William E. Adams (Hobbs, NM USA)
I found this book, written about ten years ago, on a back shelf at my small-town public library. I knew nothing about the author, and almost nothing about the Pentecostal/Charismatic revivals that he criticizes in these pages. About the only preachers he mentions that I have ever heard of were Kenneth Hagin, Benny Hinn, the late Katherine Kuhlman, and the late Amee Semple McPherson. Most of the book warns against the style of worship practiced by the Vineyard Christian movement, and some like-minded congregations. The author seems to represent mainstream Protestants, who have been losing members to these new, non-denominational mega-churches which feature visitations, allegedly by the Holy Spirit, which in turn encourage worshippers to shake, quake, fall, jump down, spin around, speak in tongues and (figuratively) pick a bale of cotton between altar and pew. The writer never reveals his own denominational persuasion, but he makes his living as syndicated radio's "Bible Answer Man." His warnings about the dangers of instant healings, worship service hypnotism, peer pressure suggestibility, and especially, arrogant pronouncements by some contemporary evangelists that the world is seeing right now preachers and prophets superior to the Apostles and Saints of the Bible, are sensible. I have always needed my religious expression to be more intellectual than emotional, and that might be a flaw in me, but the writer of this book seems to be more in my camp in spite of being more conservative and fundamental than I am. If you have some awareness of the charismatic revival movement's successes and excesses of the past 30 years, and if you are a bit leery of same, this book may explain your lack of comfort with such phenomena. One pleasant surprise is that in one section, it quotes at length a boyhood story about and by Mark Twain, who is seldom credited in any fundamentalist circles with having anything useful to say about revealed religion.
So So Book July 30, 2008
Daniel Christoffers
To start off, I want to say I thought this book was well documented. Everything Hank discusses is footnoted. Throughout the chapters he does not flood the reader with his opinions, but merely analytically reviews the "movements".
Nevertheless, I got the impression throughout the book that Hank might be attempting to group all charasmatic's with the individuals he discusses in this book. This was possibly not his goal, but again, the impression I received.
I suppose I was hoping at least for a chapter or section that would explain that he is not being critical of all groups that believe in the "gifts of the spirit". Many people and groups who believe in the gifts do not discard doctrine or sanity as the persons/movements analyzed in the book.
That aside, many chapters are very interesting to read that left me with an "I can't wait" feeling to continue reading. Others, I felt very bored with. After reading in detail about 8 or so different groups I was left feeling a 'ho-hum' about learning about yet another group with similiar problems.
There were also two characters mentioned in passing in the book that I felt were incorrectly portrayed, however that is simply my opinion.
In the end I feel like this book was incorrectly titled, yes many of the "movements" mentioned were focused on "revival" but the author focuses more on what it appears he believes are counterfeit gifts. Gifts not mentioned in scripture yet abnormally focused on by these groups. I am certainly in agreement with this analysis on the supposed "gifts" that these movements put forth that are not even hinted at in scripture.
If your a cessationist you will likely be excited to read this and saying "Oh yea, you show em Hank"
If your skeptical of the gifts you will likely be converted to cessationalism.
If your are charasmatic and are a believer in the gifts, you will be frustrated at the lack of a statement distinguishing the difference between you and these over-sensationalized groups.
If you are a member of one of these groups mentioned, you will be very angry with Hank.
 Please don't throw out the baby with the bath water! May 9, 2008
play fair
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have found Hanegraff to be someone who over reacts. He certainly misunderstood Peter Wagner. Concerning this book I understand he critiques Brownsville. Please let me warn you...just to balance things a bit...I took a group of teens to the Brownsville church. (None of us were in a pentecostal church. We just had been praying for Revival and were hungry enough for God to drive two days to get to Pensacola.)
Some of the kids shook, several fell down once. I would say the most Godly few were the ones not having the most shaking etc... and have heard the folks at Brownsville say that it is often the ones with the most junk in their lives that shake the most...having the more stuff that needs shaken out of them. As for me, I saw a few things that I did not at first understand (til the Lord helped me see the wisdom in the method, and I thank him for that because at one point I was so discouraged about some things that I disengaged. He helped me and enabled me to reengage in worship...) (I saw only one thing that I still think was not the way I would have done it if I were in charge.) I did not shake much...nor go down when prayed for, but when I came home I felt that I had never in my life been so clean. There was a holiness about me that apparently happened by just being in the services. I could not remain in a room where a television was on. Did not matter what was on it. It almost hurt my soul. I wanted nothing to do with sin, feeling clean in a way that was so awesome. I saw and felt things there that I have seldom seen anywhere else. Two of the kids who had physical manifestations saw those return months later if they were in a service when God's presence was really powerful. They were the two most bashful kids in the group. they would never fake it. It was God. That revival, at that time, was the only time I felt I was actually singing with angels. Since then I felt it once more in our church back home...(on a morning that coincidentally a lady thought she saw two people sitting in a pew before the service started and then a split second later they were no where to be found.) I know God was at Brownsville. God's presence there was awesome and it stretched me several ways. A stiff-necked person could easily stumble there, especially if their mind was made up before they went. Some one mentioned another book. Let me say I have read MacArthur's "Charismatic Chaos" and eventually threw it away. (I love books. I have thousands of them on the Bible and Christian themes...pros and cons on many issues.) I really like some of John's teaching in other works, but I was surprised and appalled at the poverty in John's book on charismatics, regarding both his poor knowledge of actual charismatics and his faulty logic concerning Biblical texts that deal with the issues. Just so you know, I was educated 4 years at a fundamental Baptist college and studied both at Dallas Theological Seminary and Trinity Evangelical Div School... I do NOT think the Pentecostals have the issues all correct, but if you trust the rabid anti charismatics...you are missing out and being equally led astray. You should read the biography on John Wimber by his wife, Carol to get the balanced side of the Vineyard movement. Also read "Surprised by the Spirit" by Jack Deere. He was a prof at Dallas. It will serve you well. May God help us to know the truth in His word and regarding how His Spirit moves during ministry moments. Both are needed unless we want to just minister in the flesh, and the shame is that too much heat and not enough light in the past interaction between charismatics and non charismatics has perpetuated error on both sides and kept us from learning from each other. God's peace and fullness to you. Brownsville has a 2 part DVD that documents the revival. Check it out.
 Every Pentecostal should read Hank Hanagraaff's Counterfeit Revival. March 23, 2007
A. Uittenbogaard
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The signature enthusiasm of Pentecostalism opens he door to laxity of all forms. If neither is checked, the freedom that is celebrated smiths more fetters than it breaks.
Every Pentecostal should read Hank Hanagraaff's Counterfeit Revival.
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